Mark Taylor

(I think you mean @dsquareddigest.bsky.social)

this closes in two weeks. the offer to email me with any Qs remains open!

The deadline to submit papers for the Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 is fast approaching.

Send your extended abstract of ~500 words to research@pec.ac.uk by Monday 2nd February.

For more information and to register for the Symposium, email research@pec.ac.uk.

another quick boost for this - closes 18 Feb. please send to quantitatively-oriented culture people in your life! they can email me!

thank you!!!

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

(no spoilers) you’re going to love Traitors Ireland

National ACE should determine the funding of all the organisations across the country that are nationally significant. The National Board would be advised by sectoral panels of experts. There should also be a stronger role given to ACE’s artform directors. All other monies should be devolved to new local and regional decision-making boards. These will comprise local artists, representatives of local community organisations, local education representatives and representatives from local government.

big component of your etc is this (where regions are suggested as MCAs) which seems to determine a huge fraction of the portfolio being chunked up significantly in advance?

culture is bad for you is £6:59! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/

Funded PhD opportunities thread!
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk

i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours

Power and Difference in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com | Susan Oman Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! "Your doctoral research project will be designed by you to respond to...

Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!

www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...

say what you want about Qualtrics, it’ll consistently remember your progress 🤷

HBD NG

just to echo Robin: *23*?

(i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)

Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions:

www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...

www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...

Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…

this is a perfect short story, please congratulate your friend (on the narration, not the content)

meme template where Worf's sceptical of one thing but enthusiastic about a second. the first is a poster for the movie the Green Book; the second is the HM Treasury Green Book on appraisal and evaluation

i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this

don’t like this description of my hairline

in four years' time, the question will have been answered!

funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!

International Conference PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference

Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe

#CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth

it's absolutely massive in Australia for some reason but it's never really caught on here (other than that pieces sometimes get syndicated in eg the Guardian)

International Conference This conference is part of the Global Dialogues series of Cultural Trends magazine. In this 2025 edition, the event will be held at the PUCP, Lima - Peru.

(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is!

(keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)

thought Macauley’s The Cook was vg

ah man this sucks. hope your break's restful and fun

London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs

When Data Hurts: What the Arts Can Learn from the BLS Firing - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre Read the blog from Douglas Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz about the dangers of dismissing or discarding data that doesn't fit the narrative.

They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data.
Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...

Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You? From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian…

The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong?

'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#EdBookFest #booksky